[Python-projects] W0212 False Positive

[Sylvain Thénault]

On Tuesday 19 December à 12:48, Chris Mellon wrote:
> The checker for W0212(access to a protected member of a client class)
> , implemented in vist_getattr in classes.py, allows calls to your base
> class, but not your own class.
> 
> Example:
> 
> class Foo:
>     _attr = 1
>     def foo(self):
>         Foo._attr += 1 #False positive - raises W0212
> 
> class Bar(Foo):
>     def bar(self):
>         Foo._attr += 1 #No error

yep, that's a known bug already in the tracker and which will be
hopefully fixed in the next pylint release.

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